Below you will find a log of some particularly memorable dreams I have had over the years. The entries will be formatted in descending chronological order of the date or broader time period each dream took place in, as I will no doubt be updating with much more recent dreams in future of course!

A pink animal attempts to subvert an apocalyptic threat

The dream seemed to almost entirely encompass footage of a nonexistent video game, which was apparently a PlayStation 2 title. It was a 3D game wherein the player controlled an amorphous pink animal (I only recall that said creature was pink in colouration and may have been mammal-like) and had to befriend other beings inhabiting different landscapes and biomes. Apparently, the game had a premise about an eldritch embodiment of negativity and nihilism posing a threat to the life of all beings in that world; the protagonist was the aforementioned amorphous pink animal, who had to befriend the various other beings to unite them and counter the nihilistic threat.

I recall the gameplay in the dream took place in a grassy landscape in close proximity to the sea and taking place around sunset, with most of the inhabitants of this environment being hedgehog-like mammals that shared the same pink hue as the protagonist. Apparently, the protagonist could only befriend other beings if a displayed "level" value met a certain threshold. Notably, the protagonist at one stage attempted to befriend a dog character (strongly resembling a Staffordshire Bull Terrier with white fur), whom responded aggressively with verbal threats and then told them to leave.

Before the dream ended, I saw that the game had a customisation feature that allowed the player to specify the pronouns of the character they controlled and was delighted when I saw that "they/them" was specified as an option.

Spyro and Sparx were probably never seen again

The dream seemed to take place in what appeared to be the world within the third and final video game in the original Spyro the Dragon trilogy, Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Spyro (with Sparx present by his side) was swimming atop a stream upon a very tall cliff, soon whisked away by a waterfall that descended from a great height. Spyro then fell into an extremely expansive body of water that had no visible horizon and seemingly floating, with the water itself having an unnaturally translucent appearance; there appeared only to be a distant pale void visible underneath. He and Sparx then dove underwater and were very soon no longer visible below the surface, at which point the dream then ended.

All we can do is wait in terror

I was a fennec fox (pertinently, given the species is one of my primary kintypes), tightly huddled up in fear to another fennec fox in an extremely dark room. The walls and floor were made of concrete and from a window the moon cast patches of bright luminescence over the environment. A humanoid-shaped presence was approaching myself and the other fox from an almost entirely pitch black corridor adjacent to the room we were in.

I do not recall what happened after this.

Digimon: The Movie Puppet Show

I was present at an unspecified exterior location, apparently in the year 2000 according to the premise of the dream. I was sat awaiting the start of a very amateurish-looking puppet show, which was intended to be an adaptation of the entire story of Digimon Adventure. The human puppeteers were huddled behind a large wooden panel painted black, with a window comprising almost half of its length, as a "stage" for the Digimon puppets and human actors.

Before the puppet show commenced, an elderly human man with glasses gave a short speech or address to the audience (which I recall no details of. They were probably humans), in which I inferred he was clearly doing so out of obligation and knew absolutely nothing about Digimon. He then concluded his speech by saying something to the effect of "Save the world, kiddos!" in a very patronising tone, before walking off and the puppet show commencing. I recall feeling irritated by the old man and his demeanour, feeling that he spoke in a very condescending and disingenuous manner.

Consequently, I remember being too annoyed to enjoy the puppet show. It was comprised of all of the Digimon characters as hand puppets and the DigiDestined being played by live human actors, who interacted with the puppets. I do not recall any other details.

Awaiting a metamorphosis that never came

I was in some sort of house, although something felt off about it in terms of room layout and structure. There was an upper floor but no staircase, instead there was a ladder on a wall which lead into what seemed to be a bedroom. There were also some pipes on the ceiling, some of which water was flowing from and into receptacles I do not recall seeing.

There was a broadly-humanoid being in the house with me. They were friendly to me and showed me some artwork (which though I recall nothing discernible about, was apparently some form of very appealing sparkledog/scenecore dog-esque art) and told me they could perform a ritual to turn me into another animal. I was very excited about the prospect of this and asked them to use it on me, so they then went away (which in the dream registered them preparing to perform the ritual) to an unknown part of the house. I waited for what felt like hours for them to return, but they never did. Eventually I decdied to wander around the house until the dream ended. I do not recall anything from doing so, other than a room with maroon-coloured walls and a dresser with a large, elliptical-shaped mirror on it.

Kokatorimon was a lie

I was playing Digimon World and had evolved a Rookie-level Digimon (I do not recall which species) into the Champion-level species Kokatorimon. I recall I was intending to see if I could trigger the special evolution condition that immediately evolves Kokatorimon into Phoenixmon*, but was then distracted by the fact the status screen indicated the species was a Machine type (in conjunction with also being an Air and Battle type). Kokatorimon is of course not a Machine type in the game at all (with the non-obtainable species Guardromon being the only Champion-level Digimon that is Machine type) but in the dream this for some reason caused me to feel an odd and vivid sense of distress as a result. I do not recall anything else that happened in the dream following this.

Sandwich

I was sat near a field I used to visit a lot as a larvalkit, eating a baguette sandwich containing some form of curried chicken and salad. Bobby Hill from the animated sitcom King of the Hill suddenly appeared, expressing some mildly aggressive form of disapproval at both the sandwich I was eating and myself. He then stood around silently. The dream ended at some point after this.

"Crusty Pelt"

I seemed to be watching an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force (of all things*), which for some reason was CG-animated. The characters and sets appeared as animated 3D models and environments, respectively. The episode seemed to take place in the house the eponymous characters live in, with a white fog present. All I seem to recall is that the premise seemed to involve Master Shake deciding to acquire multiple pieces of gym equipment and then place them in a room of the house, with the intention of charging people money to use said equipment. The only other detail I remember was that Master Shake and Frylock were arguing at one point, with Master Shake calling either Frylock or Meatwad a "crusty pelt", presumably intended as a pejorative.

Fire-breathing mechanical beings

A shorter dream, I was in some variety of factory and watched an arrangement of large mechanical beings breathe intense bursts of fire at large blocks of ice. The beings themselves were quadruped and coated with metal, with their forelimbs being outstretched and perhaps akin to fin-footed mammals such as Pinnipeds. They had long necks and small heads, each with an outstretched snout-like structure on their faces (from the end of which they sprayed fire). As I was watching this, ZG the Alien* appeared and made direct eye contact with me, appearing vaguely confrontational. The dream came to an abrupt end when my alarm woke me up.

The Blue Abode and the Intruder

I was sat in a room with a distinctly navy blue colour scheme, it seemed to be a bedroom in a house of some variety. The walls, furniture (a table and a bunk bed, with a single mattress elevated) and carpet were all shades of blue, with a darkened hue cast over it all (suggesting it was possibly dawn or dusk outside).There was an open doorway, with a corridor visible and a flight of stairs. I was present in the room with several other beings, whom of which were broadly humanoid and quite amorphous in form. Their bodies were akin to flickering television static, which along with the physical textures of their body resembling those of the 3D model of Meramon from Digimon World. The group of other beings all appeared to be waiting in nervous anticipation of something and kept telling each other to be quiet if any of them spoke. From what I recall, they seemed to be talking about a cartoon of some variety, but I do not recall any details beyond that.

Eventually after the other beings fell silent, a similarly unclearly-defined humanoid being appeared slowly as they climbed to the top of the flight of stairs that was visible; they then immediately ran in an aggressive manner towards the room myself and the other beings were present in, the others (and myself) all screaming in terror. The dream ended immediately and very abruptly before the figure entered the room.

Surf rock ghost

I was in a house I have memory of visiting as a larvalkit. My father was there with me and was in a room, deep frying some nondescript items (I cannot recall what they looked like) in a large pot of oil upon a gas-powered stove. He then showed me one of the burners was able to produce a flame in the shape of a cylinder. Whilst this was taking place, a strange surf rock-like song was playing, though it did not seem to be from coming from a speaker or anything of the sort; in the dream it felt like the song was a manifestation of some variety of ghost-like presence.

Overworked and underpaid courier

I was waiting for a delivery of some nondescript variety to my home, but for some reason was waiting around a car park in the middle of a suburban neighbourhood of some variety. A courier then appeared abruptly and handed me a cardboard box, but then proceeded to loiter around the car park with a vaguely-panicked demeanour.

I felt bad for the courier and wanted to help them, so they said to leave positive feedback on an application that I could not install on my phone. This then lead to me reading aloud something to the affect of "customers have the inherent right to ask our delivery workers to perform the Moscow Pose". I did not know what "Moscow Pose" meant but this lead to the courier immediately throwing himself to the ground and laying on his right side, his hands and feet stretched out as far as his arms and legs could reach. I tried to assure the courier that I did not ask for that but he responded by telling me that he was "obligated" to do so.

Something in the wake of a former Blockbuster Video

I was inside the building of a former Blockbuster Video branch, which I recall visiting as a larvalkit. Said building had in the real world remained derelict for a number of years after Blockbuster Video had gone out of business in my locality.

It was at night time and I was seemingly the only being inside the building, which appeared to be some sort of shop. The walls were encrusted in colourful items, many of which being plush toys. It felt like there was another being of a more ethereal or eldritch form watching me from behind the wall of toys and other items. There were also packs of Pokémon trading cards on shelves, in addition to single cards in display cases. I recalled seeing an Eevee plush that was distorted-looking on the counter and was endeared by it, though I no longer recall any tangible detail of its appearance.

Not-Hungury Guy 64

I dreamt I was in a tiny, somewhat run-down convenience store (which according to my perception in the dream, was apparently located very close to a train station). For some reason the lighting in the shop cast a very vibrant green colour. There was a flat freezer unit located in the middle of the shop, with the contents of said freezer being empty, though a boxed Nintendo 64 game was resting on top of it. The box artwork of the game depicted a character heavily resembling Hungury Guy*, jumping or flying in some capacity. I cannot recall any details about the environment the character was present in on the box art.

I left the shop without buying anything, but the owner of the shop (who was incomprehensible, but probably humanoid in shape) insisted on giving the aforementioned Nintendo 64 game to me, so I reluctantly had taken it from them.

The dream then later cut to the game being played on what seemed to be some sort of Nintendo 64 development kit. The gameplay showed the character on the box levitating and moving up and down at a high speed, clipping through a distinctly purple-coloured sea. In the background was an island with a very tall, spire-shaped volcano that kept clipping in and out of view. The game appeared to be very unfinished, but anything else I recall at all about the game was incomprehensible.

TV show about "sentient toys"

I was travelling to a hospital I regularly attended medical appointments at over a decade ago, accompanied by two other beings I cannot recall many details about, other than they were broadly humanoid in shape. On the way to the hospital, one of the aforementioned beings repeatedly told me about a new television show about “sentient toys” that was going to air on UK broadcaster Channel 4 later that day. I was told this again at several later points in the dream by various characters in the dream that I cannot recall any discernible details about at all.

When I arrived at the hospital, the building I used to attend appointments at (which seemed to be my destination in the dream) did not have any resemblance to how it appeared in my memory of it in the real world. I had to enter a strange, wide hallway that may have been an underground passage of some sort. It had a grey carpet with a tile-like pattern and white walls. One of the walls had a window with a view into what appeared to be a video rental shop visible on the other side. There was a shelf relatively close to the window that had a row of old PlayStation games, though I can’t recall any details other than the standard black PlayStation label at the bottom of the cover images.

Later in the dream, I was watching the television show about “sentient toys”. It opened with a fleshy red coloured nudibranch-like animal floating around in front of a pylon in the middle of a field, with a human eyeball gazing through their dorsal side. The show then abruptly cut to a group of chimeric monsters, all bearing the same fleshy red colouration as the nudibranch, fighting each other in an office meeting room. The monsters appeared as various mammals with hominid-like traits applied to them.

The last image I remember from the dream was an orangutang-like monster sat away at another table from the others that were viciously fighting. They were eating a dumpling of some variety.

Nyctereutes procyonoides

I was sat in a dense forest, seemingly slightly before dusk. Many of the leaves in the surrounding dense vegetation were a markedly dark grey colour. There was a raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) sat near me. They approached me and looked up at me, speaking in a quiet human-like voice. They said “We are in a state of conflict”, then ran off into the nearby foliage and vanished. The dream ended very shortly after.

Note: This dream was the motivation behind this piece I produced days later!

Realm of yellow plastic and packaged mycelial proteins

I was walking around some sort of yellow structure, in the shape of a huge bridge with a human house-like structure adjacent to a long protrusion that did not lead to anywhere. Said structure was had a texture similar to some variety of plastic and was encapsulated in a vast and desolate-feeling orange and red void. I recall being present inside the house-like structure at some juncture in the dream. On what I presume was a table inside the structure was a small cup-like container with a foil seal across the top, which I had seen had been opened slightly, revealing some variety of mycoprotein-like matter inside. For some reason, this item was (according to my perception in the dream) reportedly manufactured in the year 1998.

Bart Simpson explores what was once the domain of the Fryer Oil Clown

I was in some capacity impartially watching a being who appeared in the form of a 2D-animated Bart Simpson (only in appearance, albeit) in an otherwise three dimensional world. According to the premise of the dream, a major cataclysm had affected the world, destroying most life across it. The Not-Bart Being wandered around what was largely a derelict branch of McDonald's with a PlayPlace, with a quintessentially retro sci-fi looking terminal in the middle of it; attached to it were multiple musical keyboards. There was an elderly human woman with a profoundly stern demeanour, attempting to teach some formless beings to play the aforementioned keyboards. She became incredibly angry because none of them were playing the instruments as she was instructing. I have recollection of the Not-Bart Being attempting to play one of the keyboards and eliciting a similarly furious response from the human.

AOL

I had apparently been transported back in time to the year 2003. I was at a roadside service station and recall suddenly walking into a room with cream coloured tiles on the walls and floor. A horizontal arrangement of tiles with the AOL logo ran as a line, across the length of each of the walls. In the dream, this registered to me as a toilet room in a Burger King located at the roadside service station, but I do not recall any toilets being present in the room; there was only a large mirror, a sink and something resembling a bidet.

Grimdark live-action Wallace and Gromit reboot

I was in some capacity witnessing what seemed to be a grimdark reimagining or reboot of Wallace and Gromit, with live human actors.

The narrative involved Wallace crying hysterically to his wife (whom I recall seemed to be live-action analog to Wendolene from A Close Shave), ruminating on the idea that neither of them were doing anything worthwhile with their lives. Wallace then aburptly decides to go and see a figure he referred to as "The Reverend", with Wendolene advising Wallace to say he is having fish and chips, apparently to ensure that he is not too late when with The Reverend.

I seem to recall the dream abruptly cut to Wallace talking to an individual dressed in gothic clothing, whom of which revealed to Wallace that she was working on a project involving a "lightbulb collection".

The dream ended very soon after this; despite the dream being about Wallace and Gromit, there was no presence of Gromit in any form that I recall. The original Notes app file containing the details I wrote of this dream at the specified date was timestamped at 4:26am.

You are the culmination of the narrative

I recall having a dream which seemed to focus on multiple narratives that focused on a bevy of individual characters that each had their own story. I remember absolutely no details about these characters, their stories or even how many of them there were (other than some were not humanoid in shape), but I have vivid memory of falling over backwards in a workshop of some variety. Following this, the dream immediately ended after all of the characters in the various narrative threads of the dream crowded around me and stared directly at me with some intensity. This was the last image I saw just prior to waking up moments later.

The endearing, if very mildly uncanny, purple and green (fictitious) little fox

I was in a shop of some non-descript variety, with grey shelves and tables displaying various items for sale, none of which I can recall much tangible detail of. Upon a grey cuboid-shaped pedestal was a plush of what was according to the dream an upcoming Poison-type evolution for the Pokémon species, Eevee. The design of the plush was similarly proportioned to Eevee itself, though their head was encompassed by a shell-like structure, loosely resembling the shape of a human skull, with a single eye present below the cranium; the bottom of the shell had ridges that were vaguely like incisor teeth, emphasising the human skull-like appearance. The ring of fur around the neck and thorax of Eevee was in this instance a viridian green in colour. The rest of their design was seemingly unchanged, with the exception of their fur colouration varying between alternating instances of green and purple.

I do not recall whether I bought or otherwise ended up in possession of the plush in the dream, but I remember being very taken with the design and wanted to acquire the plush. I still really enjoy the unusual design even recounting it now, I must say (and was disappointed that it was not real when I awoke)!

The world ended, but at least there are Digimon plushes

I was walking around a large commercial sea vessel of some variety, possibly a ferry. It was completely deserted and this was apparently because most beings had died in a cataclysm that had just taken place prior to the narrative of the dream. I was the only living being remaining on the boat.

I did not like being within the vicinity of the boat, but became very excited when I entered a room with several claw machine units alligned in a row, each containing some very appealing-looking Digimon plushes (specifically of Gatomon and Gabumon). I was unable to play one of the claw machine games, but somehow ended up with one of said Digimon plushes regardless. I woke up shortly after this had taken place.

Recurrent dreams about an abandoned house that was once populated by colourful puppets

During the a period from the mid to late 2010s, I began to start having punctuated bouts of recurrent dreams, all of which connected by the fact they focused on a cottage film set that was used for the 1990s children’s puppet show Tots TV*. The set (now long-destroyed by the landowners) was situated in a small patch of woodland and had been left abandoned since the show had finished production, presumably at some point in the late 1990s.

The events that took place in these dreams varied, and sometimes they would be from the perspective of myself present at the abandoned cottage, or in some cases would be about characters I was witnessing from a third person perspective. I think I had at least one hundred of these dreams (if I were to quantify that the location appearing in any capacity in my dreams counted), many of them feeling variably unsettling and or beyond what I would be able to describe in words.

Here are some notable dreams I recall:

• I entered the abandoned house and found that it looked surprisingly pristine, given it had been left derelict for a number of years. There was a short staircase leading to an upper floor, which led to a small platform with what appeared to be prototypical versions of the puppets from the show propped up from small beds, gazing at me intensely. The puppets had eyes that looked much more organic and I was very unsettled by their presence, despite them being inanimate.
• I was there at dusk on an autumnal evening and the house was elevated, seemingly floating slightly above the ground of the patch of woodland it was situated in. There was a distinctly ochre-coloured luminescence cast from underneath it. There was also a male human dressed like a medieval serf of some variety that was gazing up into the house. I was watching this happen from relatively close proximity behind some foliage.
• A group of three nondescript human characters in a large cottage in a rural village were arguing, with one of the humans trying to block off the other two with a barrage of wooden panels. A CRT television with a built-in VHS player was playing the opening of The Story Store (a British children's stop-motion animated series from the 1990s) whilst this was happening. The nondescript trio then boarded a small plane, where they then flew to the site of the abandoned cottage. I recall seeing them walk towards it and then disappear, before the dream abruptly ended.

*For those unfamiliar,Tots TV was a children's show that aired on the children's programming block on the UK TV channel ITV in the 1990s and into the early 2000s. It featured a trio of human puppets, named Tom, Tilly and Tiny living in the aforementioned cottage. The appearance of the puppets terrified me as a larvalkit (and to this day, I still find them rather unsettling); I argue that they fit very comfortably within the depths of the Uncanny Valley. Furthermore, the show had a certain liminal and eerie atmosphere that I have not really seen replicated elsewhere (the music and sound design in particular do unnerve me to this day). For this reason I developed a fascination with the show and its unusual atmosphere when I was older.

By the end of the tape, he had left for good

Content warning: Discussion of abuse and death.

The following is a dream I recall having when I was a teenage bugfox. At the time I was profoundly unhappy and was heavily masking so much of my being and identity constantly, due to the fact I was living in a very abusive and oppressive situation (which I thankfully escaped years later). I feel this is likely to have contributed to how uniquely bleak and dismal this dream (and others I had in that period) felt to me. I was also heavily hyperfixated on VHS tapes (as well as other cassette-based media formats, such as Betamax) at the time too, with some emphasis on VHS tapes released by the (now long-defunct) Carlton Home Entertainment home media distributor in the late 1990s.

I was watching a VHS tape, which I believe in the dream was specifically one of the Tots TV VHS tapes I remember watching as a larvalkit. The tape was playing from the beginning and instead of the Carlton Home Entertainment promo that played before the main contents of the tape, it was seemingly replaced by a greyscale image of an elaborate, abstract tapestry-like image. At the top of it in an elliptical shape was a portait of a human man filmed in real-time (akin to the superimposed footage of the lion in the vintage MGM logo). Despite my frequent issues with remembering and recognising the faces of humans I know or have at least met before, I do recall quite clearly what the man looked like, with a very round, bald head and a bristly, short moustache. The man had very large eyes and very curved cheeks. He was wearing a grey suit.

The man started talking, the wording of which I am not quite able to recall at all, but the essence was him talking about the tape and possibly how VHS tapes were printed, referring to the tape I was watching as "[his] tape". He ended by saying (perhaps addressing me as I watched it, though the vagueness suggested he was uncertain if any other beings could see or hear him, but he had sensed the presence of something at least) that he "won't be here anymore by the time the tape ends" (paraphrased). The footage of him then faded out to black, with the logo soon fading out and the contents of the tape (episodes of Tots TV, as aforementioned) commencing shortly after.

I remember suddenly seeing the end of the tape, with the same elaborate, abstract tapestry image shown, but with no sign at all of the man. It was only the still image and complete silence, before this too eventually faded to black and the tape ending shortly after. In the dream, this had somehow registered to me that the man had died, with myself as the final being to see him alive.

I've always found this dream to be incredibly haunting and sad, yet extremely fascinating in the same sort of capacity.

We have nothing left but a dormant being

The entire world was (by geological standards, anyway) undergoing an absurdly sudden new ice age, with natural and urban landscapes both being encrusted with grey-tinted walls of ice. I seemed to be one of the very few beings still alive and I noticed that the immediate climate did not feel cold, let alone as freezing to me, as the environment would have otherwise clearly demonstrated.

I found myself entering a large sky scraper and was suddenly within a room on one of the much higher floors of the building, being a fairly generic-looking vast office floor, with some cubicles that were all completely devoid of any signs of humans. I was confronted by a being who looked very humanoid in form and a body that had a strong resemblance to the abundant walls of ice. They were floating above the floor in a foetal postion. They did not make any sounds or move, but in the narrative of the dream, this being was supposed to be an anthropmorphic form of totalitarianism. I recall I left the room and the dream ended sometime after, with the remainder being incomperehensible or forgotten.

Congregation at the Wonky Circus

I was walking around a large, somewhat desolate and empty campus of some variety, at first accompanied by my father. He told me he had just won a large sum of money in the lottery, but was struggling profoundly to find a reasonable use for it. After walking along a desolate dirt path on the campus, we parted ways and I entered a large theatre-like building at the end of the path.

When I entered, the interior was a hall that appeared to bear a heavy resemblance to the latter half of the Wonky Circus level from the Nintendo GameCube video game Wario World, specifically the townscape and houses that the eponymous “circus” seems to be encroaching upon in the latter half of the level. The blimp that appears towards the end of the Mirror Mansion level from the same game was also present, floating above the patrons in the hall and with the dog puppet-like enemies (also from Mirror Mansion) gazing at those below from inside.

Many of the walls were encrusted with colourful balloons, party decorations and I was extremely unsettled and overstimulated by the loud noise, visually busy environment and sheer number of beings around. Aside from the aforementioned dog puppet enemies from Wario World who were also walking aimlessly around the hall, the majority of other beings walking around the room were incomprehensible to me and I had no recollection at all of what they looked like; I do recall with certainty however that Sid and Stinky from the animated series Hey Arnold (a piece of media I had been hyperfixated on at the time) were present, grinning but not saying anything.

The dream ended with a number of the balloons gravitating towards me and exploding. I recall that I woke up immediately after this and felt very unsettled for the entirety of the day that followed.

Wario's forsaken restaurant

I had become aware of a large international chain of fast food restaurants with children's play areas (very much akin to McDonald's PlayPlaces), all of which were heavily themed around the Nintendo GameCube video game Wario World*, first released in 2003. In the dream, I learned that the chain had apparently been commissioned and funded by Nintendo to promote the release of Wario World, with a plethora of locations opened internationally; it reportedly was a massive financial failure and most of the locations had shut down from 2004 onwards. I was seemingly aware of all of this information in the dream, which had entailed myself visiting what was allegedly the final remaining active location of the chain (which was for some reason located in the middle of a suburban neighbourhood).

The remaining Wario World restaurant was comprised of a very tiny interior with tables and chairs typical of fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, with most of the cosmetic theming related to Wario World painted over or removed entirely, according to a non-descript entity in the dream (whom I recall no details about the appearance or essence of, other than they may possibly have worked at the restaurant). There was a GameCube kiosk on one of the walls, which appeared to have not been used for years. There was also apparently a soft-play area that was much more expansive than the main restaurant area, though this was behind a locked door that had not been opened for a considerable period of time. Despite not entering the area myself in the dream, I recall that before the dream had ended, I saw the interior of the soft-play area, which was largely empty. There was a very large cushioned mat on the floor and another GameCube kiosk inside, which had similarly remained out of use for some time.

*At the time of this dream, I was heavily hyperfixated on Wario World. I was particularly fascinated by the often unexpectedly dissonant tone of the game and the very surreal atmosphere it frequently entailed. To this day, I consider Wario World one of my favourite video games because of this (as well as having some very stylish and sometimes even mildly unsettling creature designs for the enemies and bosses, too). I attribute this intense hyperfixation and obsession with the game at this period of time as the reason I had this dream and the one I experienced during the subsequent night (see the entry above, titled Congregation at the Wonky Circus.)

Dimly-lit mall labyrinth

The dream was a narrative concerning a trio of humans, whom of which I recall no tangible details of. They were seemingly deep within a large labyrinth-like building, being pursued by a hostile green robot in the shape of a cuboid. The interior of the labyrinth seemed to be some kind of amalgamation of traits pertaining to a shopping mall, a bowling alley and a swimming pool.

There was a point in the dream where the three humans escaped from the building, obstructing the entrance in some way to prevent the robot from following them out. Outside of the building was a vast concrete plaza, with a myriad of humans gathering and gazing at a spire attached to the building, which began to illuminate with lights in the shape of the McDonald's logo. At the peak of the spire was a structure shaped like an archetypical flying saucer or UFO. The ascending lights culminated in an explosion and burst of light, destroying the UFO-shaped structure.

The dream ended after a CG-animated human approached two of the three humans that escaped, informing them that the hostile robot was destroyed in the explosion after trying to escape from the labyrinth building.

Something that was not supposed to be seen

I dreamt I was Furryboo*, wandering around a grassy, hilly landscape that seemed devoid of life. I looked up at a steep incline and saw the puppet Tom (from Tots TV as stated above; for reasons I am uncertain of, I found the puppet to be the most unsettling of the trio that appeared in the show) slowly appear over the horizon. He looked down from the top of the hill and stared at me with a discomforting intensity. This continued until the dream ended.

*Furryboo was another character that appeared in Tots TV. Furryboo was a small canine-like creature puppet with curly creamy ochre-coloured fur who made audible sniffing noises as he moved around. The trio of human-like puppets were always completely unaware of the presence of Furryboo, to the point of not even knowing he existed at all. Furryboo would sometimes interfere with their activities in some way. I will admit that even though I found the show unsettling (and as an adult bugfox, still do in some capacity), Furryboo is rather adorable and I identified with him in some way at that much younger age (which tangentially I feel is perhaps among what I consider to be early evidence of my identity as a caninekin).

Alfred Chicken is missing

I dreamt what seemed to be an animated sequence about the PlayStation video game Alfred Chicken*, wherein a montage of different groups of characters were seen asking "Where is Alfred Chicken?", which I seem to recall comprised the majority of the dream. I do not recall much detail at all about these characters, other than there seeemed to be one that was a saturated pink and yellow in colour, though that is the full extent of my memory of them. The sequence ended with a character bearing an almost identical appearance to the Alfred Chicken character (the only difference being their feathers or body was a sky blue colour, instead of the saturated crimson red of Alfred's actual design) stood on top of a yellow cuboid and repeated the same question one final time.

*Alfred Chicken was a 2D platformer with stylised 3D graphics, developed by Möbius Entertainment and released on the Sony PlayStation exclusively in Europe in 2002. It was a game I did not own at that time as a larvalkit, though in spite of this I was at one point obsessed with the game. It was included on a PlayStation Demo Disc released as a McDonald's promotion, comprised of four volumes; the first volume contained a demo for Alfred Chicken, as well as demos for WipEout 3, Gran Turismo 2 and Vib Ribbon. I must have played the singular level on the Demo Disc hundreds of times, as I was deeply fascinated with it. I remember my father taking me to the video game shop in our locality at the time to see if there were any copies of the full game available, but I was never able to source one at that time. As an adult bugfox however, I do in fact own a copy of the game at present and I will say that the game has a markedly eerie feel to it, with some dissonant visuals and sound design that appeal to me greatly (some of the music is actively disconcerting to me at times, this track especially sounds particularly creepy to me). It's a very strange game, but I am to this day rather fond of it and recommend it highly if you enjoy overlooked and delightfully strange platformer games.

Dulux Paint

A dream I had at a very young age. I was standing in a public park my father would take me to often at the time and was confronted by a talking dog, specifically of the Old English Sheepdog breed. I assume this specific breed appeared in association with the fact I was extremely terrified of a particular advertisement for Dulux brand paint that aired on television at the time, though the specific contents of the advert itself that frightened me so profoundly did not feature anything to do with the dog mascot itself.

The talking dog spoke to me in a cartoonishly gruff voice (which if I were to describe now, the closest analog that I know of would be akin to the voice of Robbie Rotten from LazyTown) and repeatedly said “This is the end of the episode” (which I am certain was the exact wording) to me, before regurgitating pieces of metal in my direction. This repeated multiple times until they spit what appeared to be a small metal key at me, with the dream ending after picking it up.

Claymation Hellscape

This may be the earliest dream I can recall, when I was a very young larval bugfox. I was seeing myself (from a third person perspective) standing in front of an image of a snowy mountain peak; it is difficult to articulate, but what I recall seemed to suggest the environment would be in a state of fluctuating between the mountain peak image being an flat, 2D-dimensional photograph or rendering on (presumably) a wall and an actual environment that I was present in. I was seeing myself surrounded by a small group (I am unsure of the number) of claymation-animated* bananas, which I do recall moved around in a manner that placed a lot of emphasis on squash and stretch movement. Though they were anthropomorphised in some way, they had no facial features, limbs, or any other discernible features beyond appearing as bananas. The bananas kept prodding and poking at me and did so whilst making odd, low-pitched noises, which upset and disturbed me greatly.